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Fintech and the Digital Transformation of Financial Services : Implications for Market Structure and Public Policy
World Bank - 2022
This note examines the implications of digital innovation for market structure and attendant policies, including financial and competition regulation. There have been several surveys of regulatory responses. This note takes a step back, to look at what the economic theory of banking and...
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Expanding the Outreach of Financial Services : The Experience of Financial Institutions
World Bank - 2013
In 2007-08 Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), the central bank of Afghanistan, was in the process of reforming the financial …: reputable private investors; small and medium entrepreneurs; BRAC, a microfinance institution; Kabul Bank, a fast growing … commercial bank; and Bank Millie, a state-owned bank. The examination of each institution will address the factors that have …
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Regulation and Supervision of Fintech : Considerations for EMDE Policymakers
World Bank - 2022
absence of global standards, the IMF-World Bank Bali Fintech Agenda (BFA), along with guidance by Standard Setting Bodies …
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Financial Consumer Protection and Fintech : An Overview of New Manifestations of Consumer Risks and Emerging Regulatory Approaches
World Bank - 2022
This note provides: (1) an overview of new manifestations of consumer risks that are significant and cross-cutting across four key fintech products: digital microcredit, P2PL, investment-based crowdfunding, and e-money; and (2) examples of emerging regulatory approaches to target such risks....
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Fintech and SME Finance : Expanding Responsible Access
International Finance Corporation; World Bank - 2022
This technical note is structured in the following manner. Section two provides an overview of the main barriers and frictions that SMEs face to access finance. Section three explores how digitization is an enabler for SME finance and how different fintech solutions address these barriers. The...
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Access to financial services in Nepal
Ferrari, Aurora - 2007
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Access to financial services in Colombia : the "unbanked" in Bogota
Manroth, Astrid - 2006
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Access to financial services : a review of the issues and public policy objectives
Claessens, Stijn - 2005
data on access and use, and areas for further analysis to help identify the constraints to broadening access. "--World Bank …
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Sri Lanka : Improving Access to Financial Services, Selected Issues
World Bank - 2012
Sri Lanka has made significant achievements in the provision of financial services in some areas, but there are still critical market segments that remain underserved, especially for small and rural enterprises. Low-income households could also benefit from access to a more diverse set of...
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Colombia - Financial Sector Assessment : The Role of the State in the Provision of Financial Services
World Bank - 2022
The State plays an important role in the provision of financial services in Colombia through state-owned financial institutions (SOFIs), interest rate controls, mandatory investment requirements and credit subsidies. State-owned financial institutions (SOFIs) hold about 12 percent of banking...
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